Hello Pythonistas, I am just searching for some input/confirmation for the best practice with respect to .egg-info provided in upstream tarballs.
My initial approach was based on the recommendations in the Python
Library Style Guide [1] and App Style Guide [2] to avoid evtl. double build
failures [3].
Using
override_dh_auto_clean:
dh_auto_clean
rm -rf build
rm -rf *.egg-info
works for the tested build methods debuild, pbuilder and git-buildpackage, but
has (when building from git) the disadvantage of leaving the git repository in
a different state.
As a workaround my sponsor made me think to use rather a renaming procedure
instead of deletion like
override_dh_auto_build:
mv $(PACKAGE_NAME).egg-info $(PACKAGE_NAME).hen-info
dh_auto_build
override_dh_auto_install:
dh_auto_install
rm -rf *.egg-info
mv $(PACKAGE_NAME).hen-info $(PACKAGE_NAME).egg-info
mv PKG-INFO.hen PKG-INFO
which also worked as long as using
dh ${@} --with python2
Now with the switch to enable dh_python3 and using
dh ${@} --with python2,python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
this doesn't work anymore with pbuilder failing with
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/python-sql-0.2'
mv python_sql.egg-info python_sql.hen-info
mv: der Aufruf von stat für „python_sql.egg-info“ ist nicht möglich: No such
file or directory
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Fehler 1
because pybuild seems to remove .egg-info by itself (leaving the build dir in a
different state than it was before building).
So finally I would appreciate any input on
1) Which is the preferred procedure to handle .egg-info directories together
with building from git?
2) Is there a way to satisfy all common build tools as debuild,
git-buildpackage, pbuilder, when running the build more than once?
Thanks,
Mathias
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Python/LibraryStyleGuide
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Python/AppStyleGuide
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2012/05/msg00039.html
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